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Saint Cy of JFC said:
NBA teams have between 14-18 back to back this year, Jazz have 17.
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I think it's always like this because of the fact that the jazz don't play home games on Sundays.
 
Rgiss said:
I think we'll jump on that road stretch well after the first 2 weeks. I'm guessing 4-1, or maybe 3-2, but wouldn't be surprised if we swept it.
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Ya, all winnable games.
I say we go 4-1.
 
Shad said:
We need to win as many games as we can earlier in the year. We'll be lucky to go 2-4 out of the last 6.
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Says the jazz hater
 
Just saw on espn that the warriors have the easiest schedule in the league according to opponents win percentage from last year.
 
First home game versus the Lakers. Perfect. We better beat the living dicks off of those dicks.
 
KD's Framily said:
3 brutal games in the first four. Hopefully we can start 2-2, destroying the Lakers at home and winning one of the other three.

After that it's easy for the next month.
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NO!!!!!

4-0 baby! Jazz want it all and are going to stun the NBA. Gobert and Favors are going to each eat peoples souls right on the court while the 3s rain down.

Jazz crush their spirit!!!
 
My full observations:

Our first 6 games are rough. I wouldn't be surprised to come away 2-4, or even 1-5 out of that stretch, but we'll be fine.

Our initial road trip is actually not gonna be awful. I think we'll go 3-2 or 4-1, and I wouldnt even be surprised if we sweep.

From Nov 6 to Dec 6, we really should be favored in just about every game. I really think we'll go 14-4(!) in that stretch. I wanna see our guys take advantage.

The Warriors game will be especially fun if we've got momentum heading into it. I really think they might be able to win it.

Dec 10-23 should be tough. I think we'll be fairly lucky to win half of them.

Our January schedule gets a little rough. Most of the teams we face should be playoff teams.

I think we'll stumble a little bit going into the all star break. POR, DAL, LAC, BOS is tough.

A lot of road games coming out of ASB, but most are against non playoff teams. I think we'll win more than 4 or 5/7 of our games from Feb 24 thru Mar 6.

Things will get rough from March 8th-20th. I doubt we win more than 2 games of those 7.

We end march with a little breathing room. Our last 5 games are all definitely winnable.

April is really rough, but there's a good chance that SAS and GSW are resting players by then. Let's hope they do and have the playoffs secured before then.

I think overall, our schedule peaks at around January 9th. I have us at 28-8(!!)(.777) then (I really think the early part of our schedule is easy), and finishing 51-31(.622)


Some games I have circled:

Opening game at Portland. Hopefully we find them battling us for a playoff seed late in the year. I like the matchup between us tons.

Nov 14 vs Memphis. Another team I really like our matchup with. Old Grit 'n Grind vs new Grit 'n Grind anyone?

December 8th vs Golden State. Need I say more?

January 10th vs Cleveland. Lebron vs Jazz is always fun.

February 28th @ Oklahoma City. I think that is when our schedule is roughest. Coming out off the all star break we play @ Mil, @Was, and @OKC. I wanna see how the team reacts to adversity. Especially since I predict use to win only 3 games in February.

March 1st vs Minnesota. We get the see the young wolves likely finding their groove in the season. Will the Jazz defend their home court.

April 4th and 8th vs/@ Portland. Probably fighting for a playoff seed. Lets see what the team can do.
 
fishonjazz said:
Just saw on espn that the warriors have the easiest schedule in the league according to opponents win percentage from last year.
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Yeah, they have the Lakers, Suns, and Kings in their division. Also, they don't have to play the team with the greatest regular season record of all-time...
 
I like this schedule - not counting the AS break it looks like The Jazz only have more than 2 days off between games a couple times the entire season. Jazz always seem to come out flat after a long break - many teams do; but Utah is exceptionally bad. Didn't count; but at first glance it looks like a less Friday/Saturday back-to-backs as well.

Jazz play at MSG on a Sunday at noon? That's an L. Let's at least hope players are back from the clubs by game time.
 
This is why I don't like looking at this, every year I get mad that despite every team playing each other so the schedule really should be fairly equal in that regards, I can go look and find most every little thing that seems like it's against the Jazz that they have to deal with more then other teams (even if over 82 games it may really balance out).

I don't see how anybody can say it's an easy start to the season. Playing in POR is never easy and it's a home opener for so extra home energy, Fakers should be a win, Clippers in LA not easy not an automatic L but not easy, going into SA is almost an automatic L, then going back to back from SA to UT to play DA (ironic that the Jazz will be in TX and DA will but in UT waiting for the Jazz) so that's a long flight to play back to back yes it is a team they should be but back to back and travel ain't no joke. Then a day off to play SA again, hope for a win but SA is always tough, then 1 day off to fly out for an early afternoon game in NYC and the Jazz always struggle no matter how good or bad NYK are and they almost always struggle with early starts. Then back to back playing PHI, should be an easy game even if it is back to back but that adds a shade of toughness to it and then 3 road games ending at with a back to back ORL then MIA, so if worst case scenario happens I could easily see the Jazz 3-8 and 6-5 wouldn't be a bad start IMO with that schedule.

Also after the 5 game road trip they fly from MIA have 1 day off to play MEM at home and the first game off a long road trip is always tough and MEM is still a good and experienced team, so I cannot see how any of this is easy. To start the season the Jazz have 3 home games in the first 11 games and In the first month of the season Jazz have 4 back to back games.
 
fishonjazz said:
Just saw on espn that the warriors have the easiest schedule in the league according to opponents win percentage from last year.
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That's because they don't have to play themselves
 
Jazz have to perform well in November and December, no exceptions. 22 wins should be the floor going into 2017.
 
MDAV28 said:
Jazz have to perform well in November and December, no exceptions. 22 wins should be the floor going into 2017.
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Sounds about right. We have 19 home games during that span and given our talent depth and what should be a killer excitement level at home games this season, there's no reason we should kill it at home this year. If we lose to the Dubs and Spurs and two other games (Raptors and someone else?), that's 15-4. With our 15 away games, we would then need to go 7-8 on the road to hit 22 wins. Despite our road mediocrity which has lingered for over a decade now, that's doable. Especially with the vets we added to help calm us and relatively easy road slate during that time including the Knicks, Sixers, Magic, Heat (sans Wade, Bosh, Deng, etc.), Nuggets, TWolves, and Lakers twice. Those are eight VERY winnable games right there and we also sometimes play very well on the road vs good opponents so there's no reason to think we can't win at the Clips, or Blazers, or hell, anywhere for that matter.

So yeah 22-12 sounds about right. My hope is 25-9.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Sounds about right. We have 19 home games during that span and given our talent depth and what should be a killer excitement level at home games this season, there's no reason we should kill it at home this year. If we lose to the Dubs and Spurs and two other games (Raptors and someone else?), that's 15-4. With our 15 away games, we would then need to go 7-8 on the road to hit 22 wins. Despite our road mediocrity which has lingered for over a decade now, that's doable. Especially with the vets we added to help calm us and relatively easy road slate during that time including the Knicks, Sixers, Magic, Heat (sans Wade, Bosh, Deng, etc.), Nuggets, TWolves, and Lakers twice. Those are eight VERY winnable games right there and we also sometimes play very well on the road vs good opponents so there's no reason to think we can't win at the Clips, or Blazers, or hell, anywhere for that matter.

So yeah 22-12 sounds about right. My hope is 25-9.
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When looking at the schedule, my gut feeling predictions have us at 26-8. Losses @LAC, @SAS, DAL, @NYK, @CHA, HOU, OKC, and @GSW. Of course my gut feeling is insane and thinks we win GSW, SAS, @HOU, and @POR

Have us going 25-23 the rest of the way
 
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